Semester 1 Rhetorical Devices Flashcards by Erica Henschen | Brainscape

Q

Litotes

A

Negating the opposite

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Aposiopesis

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Abrupt Pause in thought

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Apostrophe

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Direct address to absent person

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Metonymy

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Use of name to represent noun

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Synecdoche

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Part to represent whole

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Tmesis

A

Separation of compound word

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Chiasmus

A

Arrangement of words in reverse order

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Syncope

A

Loss of letters in a word

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Anaphora

A

Repetition of word

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Hendiadys

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2 nouns joined, modifying each other

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Hyperbole

A

Exaggeration

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Asyndeton

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No conjunction

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Polysyndeton

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Lots of conjunctions

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